"Today I bought the new PC ACTION and there are some Interviews and 6 pages of infos about Company of Heroes 2 and also many new pictures. I will scan them in and post them with some infos in here."
Facts:
- 110 people work on COH2
- Again the right use of the dynamic game environment is important, not the amount of troops
- Campaign takes place from 22. June 1941 until Berlin 1945
- Producer Greg Wilson says that Essence 3.0 is on eye level (right translation? ) with Call of Duty or Battlefield
- HDR Light, SSAO, new water renderer
- BUT they also promise better performance for all PC Systems than in vCOH and Addons
- True sight examples: Use Smoke Grenades to sneak through areas without uncovering your best troops. Or blow a gap in a wall to see what is behind it.
- The weather is extremly realistic. Snow gathers on static objects and gets blown away by explosions
-Snow is not a texture but has deep, so infanterists move very slowly in deep snow (with nice animations). Its easier on the street but the enemy knows that too...
- Flame throwers can destroy a house completly. It will slowly burn down until it can't be used anymore
- Soldiers now can jump over their cover
- The AI in the campaign is now not scripted anymore, they use the same AI as in skirmish mode, which makes it much more interesting
- Retreat means death in the campaign (but don't know if scripted or not)
- The recoil when the T-34 shoots even affects the environmental physics. --> ground shakes and lets the cup of coffee of General Annoying fall on his new uniform ;)
- They want the coop mode to be really big, because a high amount of players prefered to play with other players against the AI
- German troops stand out with their advanced technology compared with the russians, upgrades and tactical use of special abilities are more important for the Wehrmacht than for the Soviets
- The Russians rely on mass but class and like to use brute force. They got many powerful tanks.
- The developers don't want to tell us yet if tanks can break through ice but they said: "Dont underestimate General snow and General mud!"
- You are able to steal the enemies vehicles
- Base building will stay in game (there was a discussion in another Thread)